Children, today we review The History of Classical Music. He has him stand up. You, tell us which are the 7 eras. His knees were shaking. He froze. He knew them perfectly. He had rehearsed them, each period, each name (with examples) - all last night. He got all red in the face, exasperated at his own embarrassment. Sit down, you have a 2 for today. His palms were bleeding. He had beaten him with the pointer. As punishment. That day he swore he would go to a speech therapist, that no one would abuse him again. Today, he sits at the teacher's desk, without a pointer, carefree, with the lecture memorized.
(Translated by Constantin Istrate / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year I / Corrected by Silvia Petrescu, coordinator of the translations)Real Fiction is a collective project started in 2013 by Florin Piersic Jr. The concept of Real Fiction continued to exist as a Facebook group, after a volume of stories was published at Humanitas Publishing House. (In May 2022, the group has 8,350 members.) The authors write ultra-short stories, with the texts limited to 500 characters (in Romanian, so the length of the English translation might be a little different) - a flash-fiction exercise on a topic that changes every few days. The group's coordinators are Florin Piersic Jr., Gabriel Molnar, Răzvan Penescu, and Luchian Abel. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)
Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficțiuni Reale. 
